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Monday, January 11, 2010

Barefoot/Minimalist Shoe Running Across America Update

The first week went well. I'm only running about half the mileage needed to stay on pace, but I'm in a building phase at this point. Most of my mileage has been on trails, which is a nice change from my usual winter running. Roads are becoming less tolerable.

I start clinic #2 at the end of this week. I have a much better idea of what and when to cover materials. The clinics would be much easier if it were not winter, but it is still possible to teach the basics.

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"Perhaps the genius of ultra running is its supreme lack of utility. It makes no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense. The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of their being -- a call that asks who they are."-- David Blaikie, Ultramarathon Canada